Two weeks before their April 2020 cruise Stephanie Boucher and her daughter Trisha Boucher found out the inevitable -- the trip was being cancelled.

The cruise was Nursecon at Sea, a nurses conference slated to take place over five days aboard a Royal Caribbean trip to the Bahamas. The cancelation wasn’t totally out of the blue as a No Sail Order had been in effect since the middle of March as covid-19 was docking boats that were scheduled to leave U.S. ports from coast to coast.